Visual novels like Forgotlings

Still thinking about Forgotlings and its hand-drawn and emotional tone? These visual novels keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Forgotten Fields
Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
70% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Goodbye Volcano High
Guide Fang, a dinosaur teen, through senior year while an asteroid closes in. You pick dialogue, nurture friendships and crushes, and turn hard conversations into songs. Hand-drawn and fully voice-acted, it is a warm, sad, funny story about making things right before time runs out.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
94% of 639 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Night in the Woods
College dropout Mae Borowski returns to crumbling Possum Springs, where old friends have grown up and something stirs in the woods. You wander, talk, and choose who to spend time with in a hand-drawn town full of sharp, funny dialogue and a slow-building mystery worth reading to the end.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
94% of 18,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$19.99
Unforgotten
UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
76% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Familiar Travels - Volume One
Familiar Travels is a different kind of graphic adventure with a focus on diverse relationships, an important, story and forging genuine connections with the cast.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
88% of 115 Steam reviews are positiveFree
SEASON: A letter to the future
Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season. You meet people, photograph and tape what matters, and build a journal for the future. Slow, tender and strange, it suits visual novel readers who come for story, characters and quiet reflection more than plot twists.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
93% of 1,851 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
Disillusion ST
A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once brought happiness to others.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cute
96% of 550 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Winds of Change
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
95% of 558 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Crown Gambit
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
93% of 458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99
Until Then
A slow, tender visual novel that turns strange: you follow Mark, a Filipino high-schooler, through school days, chats with friends, and small routines, until people vanish and memories stop adding up. Read on, keep going past the first ending, and piece together what is really happening.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
The NOexistenceN of Morphean Paradox : The Forest of Silver Shallots
You wake in the Forest of Silver Shallots and lead a guild into its mist, where factions scheme and every choice reshapes bonds and endings. Expect schedule planning, party building, turn-based fights, and a long, branching story with Lilith, a fallen princess, an ex-Demon Lord and more.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
72% of 1,761 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$6.99

Cheaper than Forgotlings

Forgotten Fields

Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time…

$12.99

Lost Words: Beyond the Page

A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds.

$14.99

Unforgotten

UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors.

$4.99

Disillusion ST

A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…

$10.99

Winds of Change

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices.

$1.99

Crown Gambit

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil.

$17.99

If Found...

You erase Kasio's December 1993 diary page by page to relive her month back home in Ireland: family fights, awkward crushes, kisses, a punk concert…

$12.99

The NOexistenceN of Morphean Paradox : The Forest of Silver Shallots

You wake in the Forest of Silver Shallots and lead a guild into its mist, where factions scheme and every choice reshapes bonds and endings.

$6.99

fault - milestone one

A princess and her bodyguard flee a burning homeland, botch the escape spell, and wake up in a strange forest where magic does not work the way it…

$14.99

Once Again

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

$1.27

Hindsight

What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past?

$14.99

Dream about yoU

A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…

$7.99

Hidden gems like Forgotlings

Heartfall — A Tale in Three Lives

Wake up as Grian on a strange island with 12 odd neighbors, then read and choose your way through wildly different routes about friendship…

Free

Crown Gambit

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil.

$17.99

Disillusion ST

A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…

$10.99

The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.

A strange fairy tale you read by the fire, one that starts to feel familiar.

Free

Decade

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.

$9.99

Dream about yoU

A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…

$7.99

Provoron

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

$9.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator

CraftCraft is a narrative-heavy RPG sim with hands on forging and jewelry making! Create a pretty tiara for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood!

$15.99